Conservative Radicalism: a Sociology of Conservative Party Youth Structures and Libertarianism 1970-1992

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] in practice, there was Searchlight and Labour Research. Pursuing its aim of amplifying the fascist ‘threat’ to bolster support for and the legitimacy of, the state of Israel, Searchlight was then pushing the idea that the Tories had been infiltrated by a barely disguised group of semi-fascists. This climaxed with the ‘Maggie’s Militants’ edition […]

The Terrorism Industry (Book review)

Lobster Issue 21 (1991)

[…] for the Study of Terrorism (Wilkinson). Non-UK groups include the Centre for Conflict Studies and Mackenzie Institute in Canada (Charters/Tugwell), the Jonathan Institute and Jaffee Centre in Israel; and in America, the Georgetown CSIS, Heritage Foundation, American Security Council (Singlaub/Stilwell), the International Security Council (Moonies), the Nathan Hale Institute and Rand Corporation. It also […]

‘Privatising’ covert action: the case of the Unification Church

Lobster Issue 21 (1991)

[…] attempted to found a small community church near Pyongyang, without much success. He then joined a mystical sect in the southern Korean province of Kyong Ki-do called Israel Suo-won, whose tenets foreshadowed both his later theological principles, particularly in their emphasis upon the imminent appearance of a Korean messiah, and his ritual practice of […]

Harassment by the state

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] for several hours. She was a political exile with refugee status from the Home Office. An architect, she had stumbled across some big scam being run in Israel and had been forced to leave. The story was long and complicated. I’ve now forgotten most of it. She had piles of documents. She claimed that […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] is rarely far away (see Lobster 47). To complete the picture, we should also mention that MacShane is on the policy council of the Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) whose chair in the House of Lords is old MI6 hand Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale. LFI It proved to be a heavy security presence in […]

The Ultranationalist Right in Turkey and the Attempted Assassination of Pope John Paul II

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] (and other West German intelligence agencies) is provided by Walde pp.79-105. The best sketch of Mossad’s structure and functioning is probably the CIA’s own leaked 1979 analysis, Israel: Foreign Intelligence and Security Services in Counterspy (May-June 1982) pp.34-54. Most of the other works on the Israeli intelligence services are ‘hagiographic’. The NATO secret service […]

Demos

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] The Independent Institute, exposed as a business lobby in the New York Times when leaked documents showed that Microsoft secretly funded their research.(22) A member of The Israel Center for Social & Economic Progress (ICSEP) run by Daniel Doran (former Israeli intelligence and special consultant to the US Embassy in Tel Aviv). The US […]

In a Common Cause: the Anti-Communist Crusade in Britain 1945-60

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] Germany, Great Britain and the United States. In his 1975 autobiography (published in Holland) Einthoven states that he was lobbying for support in France, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, Israel and even Indonesia. Personal links were developed with the Bilderberg group. In the The Black-Pincered Crab by E. Verhoeven and F. Uytterhagen (Holland 1982) the authors […]

Lying about Iraq

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] essential struggle against terrorism by attacking Iraq? Would we thus turn the Middle East into a set of friendly democratic capitalist societies ready to make peace with Israel, or into a region of sullen humiliation, a fertile and almost inexhaustible recruiting ground for further terrorists for whom Britain is a main target?'(27) This campaign […]

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